Nursing Informatics Executives

CNIO Job Description

As the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) role varies within healthcare organizations, it is essential to have a standardized job description that can be referenced for needed competencies regardless of specific job title. This document provides recommendations for a C-Suite level CNIO job description including Qualifications and Experience, Key Responsibilities, and Reporting Structure.

Members of the HIMSS NI Executive Engagement Workgroup were asked to complete a survey in regards to their job description at their current organization during February 2016. During the duration of a six-month process, volunteers were split into three subgroups – Qualifications and Experience, Key Responsibilities, and Reporting Structure. Volunteers used the survey as a reference to create the standardized job descriptions document. The final document was then open for discussion amongst the overall NI Executive Workgroup and NI Committee. From there, a finalized document was set in place. For questions, please contact the Informatics Team.

This session identifies common structures for Clinical Informatics and Nursing Informatics governance, including roles partnership and councils, as well as describes how the proposed model of the nursing domain of CI governance provides a start point for nursing informatics leaders to further explore and validate best practices.

This session identifies benefits of nursing leadership on organizational boards, discusses how to formulate a plan to participate on organizational boards and identifies advantages and the importance of have informatics leadership serve specialty nursing boards.

This presentation will feature Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, Chief Nursing Officer, IBM Healthcare Global Business Services and Bethany Harper, MSN, RN, CPHIMS, Director of Information Systems & Clinical Informatics, Lakeland Community Hospital, who will discuss their experience with career transitions in nursing informatics and the opportunities and challenges along the way.

2014 Nursing Informatics Executive Workgroup Sessions

This webinar features Carol Bickford, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN and Cheryl Parker, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS who highlight key revisions in the 2015 edition, provide rational for content as well as list the NI standards of practice and professional performance.

New format! The NI Executive Workgroup features a facilitated discussion in which workgroup members engage in dialogue about emerging trends and hot topics in their field. This month's call features presenters Vickie Mullins Moore, MSN, RN, NEA-BC and Betty Blahna, BSN, M-PM, who lead the discussion about the Magnet program and identify opportunities Magnet creates for nursing informatics leaders.

This webinar identifies individuals and organizations that can assist Nurse Executives in increasing their awareness of societal and technological trends, issues and new developments that relate to nursing.

In this session held on February 6, 2014, Health IT Executives led a panel discussion covering topics such as the CNIO role, challenges they encountered regarding the rapid rise of technology within their organization and how their role has been impacted by Meaningful Use.

Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, FAAN, discusses her experience in meeting with national leaders in nursing, healthcare and informatics to develop an action plan for shaping health policy and informatics initiatives that use a national nursing knowledge model.

Healthcare IT adoption has often been contrasted with IT adoption in other industries. The perception is that the healthcare industry lags behind other industries, such as banking or airline reservations, in the implementation of IT.